I've eaten pizza with a fork and knife (in Jersey, no less) if it's steaming freaking hot just out of the oven. Especially if it's loaded with toppings and the cheese + toppings are liable to slide off. I'll usually move to hands by the time I get halfway through / to the crust / the next slice.

Also if I'm doing something where, sorry, I just don't want grease on my hands. Working through lunch = good example.

StreetlightInTheGhetto:I've eaten pizza with a fork and knife (in Jersey, no less) if it's steaming freaking hot just out of the oven. Especially if it's loaded with toppings and the cheese + toppings are liable to slide off. I'll usually move to hands by the time I get halfway through / to the crust / the next slice.

Also if I'm doing something where, sorry, I just don't want grease on my hands. Working through lunch = good example.

/whothehellcares x 3

Yep... If it's a pizza with a thin crust I will too. I'm not going to fold my pizza in half because if I had wanted a farkers calzone I would have ordered one.

And yeah, if im ever forced to go to NY, and I decide to have pizza, I will use a for and knife If that's the best way.

FTA: "In my ancestral homeland it is more typical to eat with a fork a knife."

1) Ancestral homeland means "where your ancestors are from". You, however, are from New York. And they also burnt people at the stake in your "ancestral homeland". -- Meaningless statement

2) You aren't in your "ancestral homeland", dunce. "When in Rome" and all that. When I eat rice with chopsticks, I have no problem just jamming the sticks into the rice while I reach for my drink; I wouldn't do this in Japan as (from what I've heard) it has certain connotations. I wouldn't do it and then say, "Oh, but back home I do this." -- Stupid statement